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    The freedom to express yourself is also the freedom to do stoopid things.

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    While I agree, I guess, I'm not sure RET's spotting was any wilder than the big dude sitting next to his big bike smoking a big cigar with smooth jazz playing over the loudspeakers, overlooking a vista of the city.

    Meh, people are nuts, man.

    Did I mention this dude was big? And also bald. He sure did seem to be liking his ... I can't think of who it might be ... smooth jazz with acoustic instruments.

    Well, whatever, man. The chickie in short-shorts with her special-needs dog or whatever gained about a hundred meters on me when she passed him -- apparently she didn't like his vibe.

    I didn't either, because I was having my own groove, but OK whatever.

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    Oh. I got you all beat.

    Dude, this guy, and this woman.

    Ridiculous.

    Overheard: "Yeah: Bradley Cooper Guy!"


    ETA "I thought....something.....weird Tarantinto movie[/eta]

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    I'm mighty curious why somebody would move to the state of Arizona out of choice. For that matter, why Arizona exists in the first place.

    OK, Wikipedia mentions that it was the last state to be admitted to the US of the contiguous states, and that it has copper mines.

    I guess that explains why it's there, but only grudgingly.

    Does not explain why somebody would want to live there, unless they're old and senile and have the metabolism of a lizard and an appetite that can only be quenched by the Arby's in the strip mall ten miles from home.

    ETA OK. Monument Valley. I thought that was in Utah or New Mexico. Well, that's why I would go there. Doesn't really explain what one would do besides look at the Monuments and fantasize about the old west. Maybe take up cattle rustling, or stage a revolution in Mexico.

    ETA my previous emissions were actual things two people said that I overheard. Fragments of a conversation. And my question was, and still is: WTF are they talking about? In what conversation do the phrases "Yeah, Bradley Cooper guy" and "I thought...something...weird Tarantino movie" (not sure if "...something..." was part of the transcription or indicates garbled speech) have any part?
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    Why is there a potato masher in my office kitchen that has no stove?

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    A donation from someone who doesn't need it at home?

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    Quote Originally posted by Elendil's Heir View post
    A donation from someone who doesn't need it at home?
    But why do they think we need it here? Where are the potatoes that need mashing going to come from?

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    Maybe they were just hoping someone else would take it home - but a note to that effect would've been a good idea.

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    Yeah, I'm thinking just somebody wasn't really thinking it through, and was like, "hey, this is a kitchen, and here's a kitchen tool. my action equals true!"

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    Oh, I forgot, I do have an actual question: what is a good punishment for women that would be the equivalent of chemical castration for men? I can't think of anything. But, you know, for a just world when traffic violators receive suitable punishment.

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    I don't know of any functional equivalent of chemical castration for women. It's not exactly a priority for Big Pharma these days.

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    Why would somebody steal our Toronto Blue Jays doormat? (It's a genuine game-day giveaway, but it's still had been sitting outside with people tromping on it for a year or so) Who would come up right to our door and steal it?

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    I know the answer to this, actually. Drunk young adults.

    Don't ask me how I know, but I do.

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    My mother since the last time I was online (yesterday? day before?) started a Facebook page. I'm not going to "friend" her, until I can find out how to restrict her viewing privileges to only my tamest and most friend-endearing posts, BUT QUESTION: should I?

    And, given that at least a eighteen of extended family members, and mutual close friends of the family are my FB-friends, is that a thing? Like, "oh noes, hide the porn from my relatives when I die!"?

    Seems reasonable to me to ignore her friend request, as I have many others.


    [update=just now on FB after friending, post on timeline]
    Wow. Look at that. My mom's on FB now, and I "friended" her, without bothering to find out how to hand-select which posts she should be allowed to see.

    See?

    That's, like, filial piety or something.

    She hasn't let me brush her hair or made me grilled cheese sandwiches in a long time.

    Also, note to _____: why would you "join" FB? It's idiotic.
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    No real question after all, just thought that should be shared for future archaeologists.
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    Why was the street person cramming an OK looking coat into a recycling bin?

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    Well, that is a good question. I'm not sure, my boy, that I have the answer to that particular question, but if you'll allow me, I'll let you in on a little secret -- joking with you, son! see, everybody who knows me knows I keep secrets about as well as a hobby horse keeps its butt-virginity from teenage boys! -- probably that "street person" was having a fit of what we call the "crazies," or "delusional parasitosis" or "had an infestation of bedbugs" or "was not a street person and was just throwing away some stuff" or "that coat was not OK, but only looked it."

    Feel better, son?

    Me too, my boy.

    Tell me, son, do you like gladiator movies!


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    Eh, I can't keep going with that -- sometimes I crack me up.

    eh, there was a reason I came over here.........

    shit.

    Oh well fucking A, I had an actual good question.

    Well, you know, like a question or something.

    Well fuck, I'm not going to leave my post lame without a question,..............computing..............thin kig.....................



    DING DING DING

    I actually remember my real question I came over for

    IS THERE A GIRLS EQUIVALENT TO THE MNEMONIC FOR READING THE G ("TREBLE") CLEF LIKE "EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINE/DESERVES FUDGE"? BECAUSE all I can think of is some NSFW shit, like "every girl's butt does fine."

    C'mon, there's gotta be a non-sexist version.


    (b) ancillary question: am I a retarded

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    OK, I got a pretty good question. I'm not expecting to be made fun of for asking it, but, well, my only mode of humor is being a complete dickweed asshole, so I do expect it.

    Oh, and here's how stupid I am, it turns out I have two questions.

    (i) is it gay and or retarded to conclude a casual e-mail with a priest with "Yours in faith"? I thought it was kind of butch, actually, but I want the people's opinion.

    (ii) I think I know the answer to this, but all I know is what people say, and people eat shit, so is it bad to genuflect NOT in the direction of the tabernacle when entering the pew, but just genuflect? I'm a fucking asshole, so I use the font coming and going, and just out of reflex genuflect when "hey TAKING A SEAT HEAR PADRE YOU GOTTA PROBLEM" because....I don't know why, I'm just an ass. But what's the real answer?

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    Q Tablets and phones make it a real challenge to standard QWERTY/AZERTY people to interact. This is a terrible handicap, no?

    Q Do Tardphones users "find their level," like water and so forth? Or is it turtles all the way down?

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    Is it better to spend 1.5 times more time to learn the arguably richer Mozart piano sonata K330, or to enjoy learning the K309 while continuing to fool w the 'jeanhomme' concerto?

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    I'd go with Option B, but there really is no "right" answer.

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    Yeah, I'm tending to (B) as well -- also, maybe it's philistine, but I like the Sonata no. 7 better. It's simpler and a little more "clean" to my ears. No. 10 seems needlessly show-offy. The "Jeanhomme"Concerto is great, especially the odd Rondo (third movement), but I just like fooling around with those octave jumps in the LH in the Rondo, and the Adagio section of the Rondo. It's not like I'm going to play any of this in a recital, but it's good to keep reading repertoire.

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    I thought the correct answer was k309 first movem + k330 secnd mvmnt and 1st mvmnt, in that order, but the whole of k309 is cute, and sort of fits together. Sorry, k330, yr third movement just ruins it.

    And the whole Jeunehomme concerto is a pleasure even just as a soloist. Lots of places to improvise and work on technique.

    Of mozart i'm sorry to say his prelude and fugue k
    394 is beyond my abilities at sight reading at tempo. The fugue is imho ridiculous, and is not worth the effort.

    However am glad to say that the LH accompaniment style up through beethoven's middle period is syraight out of wam's book. And its a nice background for improvisation rh
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    Why is it that these hippies I know are so much, like anti-LSD, in favor of good old shrooms? Bullfuckingshit.

    If I'm going to see a fucking eclipse I want to go balls deep in clean, non-strychine chemicals, not eating stuff some hippie grew in cow shit in his spare bedroom.

    Fucking pansies.

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    Here's a couple of good ones.

    FIRST

    This is one I never thought to ask when I was studying metamathematics, with the Turing Machines and Gödel and everything, some linguist friends, because it didn't occur to me.

    So, to what extent do linguists make use of automaton theory and formal language theory in general? Chomsky, while a deranged idiot about politics, nonetheless had the field cornered in the 1950s and beyond -- the notion of the Chomsky Hierarchy is, therefore, familiar to linguists, and from what I can see on the web, it's part of the standard curriculum to know about Context-Free Grammars (CFGs), and the related Pushdown Automata and so forth.

    And from there, it follows, one has secured the knowledge that linguists know a bit more than how to draw a parse tree and so forth.

    What I want to know is how much further do they go? Automaton Theory and Formal Language, as well as creating specialized Parsers (both in logic, but more obviously to the everyday person in "compilers" -- responsible for how software is translated from reasonable human-readable code into completely binary form) is, in my experience, sort of the concrete part of the more abstract logic that defines computer science. However, while computational linguistics is a thing, and supposedly multi-disciplinary, I don't see much evidence of work from either CS or Linguistics in both fields.

    It seems the "multi" part of the multi-disciplinary is left to philosophers alone, who seem unique in having the background in the three core fields: logic, mathematics, and, while not about linguistics, at least some notional ideas about language.

    SECOND

    I've been observing that little pump thingy, or whatever it is, in the tank of my toilet for a few weeks now. It emits a kind of quiet, but audible hissing sound, nearly constantly, that can be stopped by touching it gently, moving it in continuous increments no more than a total of ten millimeters in any direction from the top. Trying to put a shim to quiet it results in a small leak from the bottom of the tank. Which I don't like.

    First, WTF is up with that. Second, I have a replacement thingy, somewhere, but I don't really want to bother with closing the valve and replacing it, probably a ten minute job, but I just don't want to: is it a good idea to replace it, or just put the lid back on the tank, as is my wont, and say to hell with it?
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    I can't help too much on the first one, except to ask if you are familiar with the Language Log blog? That kind of stuff is their meat.

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    Eh, I'm half drunk but here's an arrow in the air that anyone knows what a fused relative construction is called in French.

    I admit, I got my Grévisse (the standard usage guide for French -- except, of course, it's written in French) out, but now I'm just using it to hold down a computer key on an old notebook. Grévisse, true to French tradition, does not make it easy to find stuff in his book.

    Oh, RET thanks for the link to the blog. It doesn't seem to deal with theoretical or formal linguistics, but it will be good to have in my pocket if I have need for it. By way of reciprocation, people interested in logic could do worse than read Peter Thomas [eta his blog, which is really good, and eta it seems he's dead, but he's a good, humane writer IMHO] of Cambridge (IIRC), not least for his links to other things of interest to "big-boy" logic.
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    Goddammit, fucking cunt whore motherfucker.

    Not goddamned Peter Thomas Geach, but Peter Smith.

    Well, whatever, but PS is still very much alive and active on twitter, and, like me, is a fan of Angela Hewitt's music.

    Question How is it that it is very upsetting to get a detail wrong. My mistake could have ended lives! Human lives, I tell you!

    ETA I still want to set up a WordPress thing combination of Smith's and Milewski's, but I can barely get my GitHub personal page right -- bah, web design is ridiculous. Rather write the whole thing in LaTex and just have it as a text file.
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    I got a pretty good one, speaking of old music.

    I suppose it was about time for my semi-annual viewing of *The Last Waltz*, and it occurred to me that when the Staples Singers are doing "The Weight" (in A major thank you very much), I wonder if there's some behind-the-scenes of how they shot that.

    It seems clear to me that the Singers' bit was mostly recorded in the "black box" theater-type setting, and maybe some doll puppets or something for inserts of Levon and everyone.

    No question they were all live, I'm just wondering how they did the video. Not really an area I care to know much about, but probably some good anecdotes.

    And, no, it's not in Levon's RIP autobio. He does come across in the millionth time I've seen this as the hardest working man in show business this side of JB.

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    Well, I think the above can be scratched off the list. It was some camera trick or something.
    =======================
    However, I think a pretty good question is:

    never mind.

    I'm just completely dismayed by the understanding of working people and the obsession of a few socially-handicapable people of what technology means.

    I see no understanding of history, rudimentary technical understanding (such as, for example, that some androids are going to come to "life" anytime much before the sun burns out), or coherent economics (such as that increasing automation and privatization of mass transit will envelop a cost that will probably be counted in the lives of passengers executed haphazardly by defensive measures justly taken by the more numerous non-rural commuters).
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    Yes, I'm going to clarify.

    People and nerds should just shut up. There is no flux ray capacitor, there is no goddamned shit.

    There are people working with pencil and paper.

    There is not a fucking Rosie the Robot, and finally shut the fuck up.
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    Here's an easy one that I don't seem to be able to find with Bing.

    So, like, I haven't watched a single baseball game in a few years. Caught some of the World Series tonight, and apparently José Altuve has this thing about kissing his bat at plate.

    My father asked me what's that about and, when I asked if the player whose name he couldn't recall was hispanic, said probably. My best guess was it was kind of like some Latin Americans kissing their fingers after doing the sign of the cross, or kissing their crucifix as a necklace.

    Basically, a kind of superstitious Catholic thing. (No, I'm not making fun, I'm a practicing Catholic too, and I occasionally attend mass and sometimes receive communion at an hispanic-language mass near where my folks live when I'm not near my own regular parish [see, cause I can participate in the mass in Latin, and I kind of don't disrupt anything because of being Anglo jerkface stupid English language]).

    Anyway, that's my only guess. For all I know it's just his thing, for some stranger reason than one could suppose.

    This is not a question of any importance, but I bet somebody knows.

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    Also, c'mon Dodgers, keep it together and whup some Tejas ass.

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    ETA oh, here's some additional amusement. For some reason the old man was chatty, so he started asking me questions (I guess he figured I would know -- well, not a great assumption, but, OK) about the DH rule, the way the strike zone is defined....jeez, my mind is still reeling. The kinds of questions you'd walk into an old man sports bar (every bar in midday is an old man bar, by definition -- fortunately, that's my forte) and spend hours discussing.

    Oh, and here's the glove cleaner, with my uncle and me, we're just kind of waiting around for trick or treaters, he asks point blank, "what is the reformation?" Lots of mumbling .... 1517......Luther, Calvin.....jesus christ.

    That is a lot of fucking questions.

    Feh, old people. No patience.

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    I must say, though, that little graphic of the strike zone on TV is sort of neat. It kind of robbed me of my pleasure of saying "too low!" or "outside!" and calling the umpire a bitch, though!
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    Quote Originally posted by Jizzelbin
    Of mozart i'm sorry to say his prelude and fugue k394 is beyond my abilities at sight reading at tempo. The fugue is imho ridiculous, and is not worth the effort.
    I just noticed this, and I should not have said the fugue is "ridiculous," without specifying that it is ridiculously demanding to sight read. From my memory, it's not really memorably or even technically demanding, especially, but it's tough to make musical sense of.

    I'd compare it to that set of Schumann's fugues (I can't remember the Op no) which are, to me, just kind of like....well, you have to commit a bunch of time to it/them, and forget about learning it by heart unless you're a savant.

    I'll give gratis an update that, indeed, at least the Rondo of the Jeunehomme concerto is one of those natural pieces that, even if you don't try, sometimes you just end up humming it to yourself and find yourself able to recall good bits of it -- for a 41 year old man, that's a pretty good feat of the subconscious brain, given my dismal record of memorizing Bach (to be fair, Bach is, Angela Hewitt has said, "about the hardest thing you can do to memorize" and she's like a hundred or something).

    Also, meh, I kind of think the Mozart sonatas are not fun at all. They sound like cornball things you'd hear at a little kid's recital. The concerti, and even little things like the D minor Fantasia (the more famous one) are great.

    And, that "pattern" for improvising is called the Alberti bass. I never knew that, just knew it was in the Presto agitato of Beethoven's Moonlight and in other stuff. Well.

    Yeah, call that a public service announcement.

    I think if I do more Mozart, it will probably be working off the scores to some of his operas and symphonies, and as always trying to add more tricks to improvising little melodies and harmonic stuff over his framework.

    I think he's fun, but maybe I can discover more harmony than I did at a young age singing "Don Giovanni! A cenar teco! m'inivitasti, e son venuto. a padron a pdron a padron, a pdron siam tutti morti Vann dieco! Ferma un po ....." nope, not going on any more, that's my one and only opera bit I know to annoy Gladys Kravitz neighbors while in the shower.

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    Here's a simple one for some of the budding young wordsmiths out there:

    I can't decide if this cheap little barb makes sense: "I don't know, I think your mom's dildo is still stuck in my ass from when she mistook me for you and tried to peg me."
    (Well, the context doesn't really matter).

    It's pretty wordy, and it's already been used by me in the wild, but any suggestions for cutting it down to a little more better, half-decent insult, maybe for future use.

    I am kind of married to the mom+ass dildo+pegging idea -- it's a nice holy trinity of foulness.

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    A little wordy, but certainly inventive.

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    Quote Originally posted by Elendil's Heir View post
    A little wordy, but certainly inventive.
    Well, good to know it sort of makes some sense. I'd stop short of calling my ejaculation "inventive," but I'll keep trying some others on that theme.

    You never when these can come in handy! Measure twice, cut once, rinse and repeat. And stuff.

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    You said it!

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    Here's kind of an easy question.

    I'm updating my resume this weekend, and there are a couple of small questions somebody here might have opinions about.

    (a) So, I'm still kind of slacking off using a language called Python and some specialized libraries to do (text) data munging/preprocessing for a small machine learning example (the bulk is written in C++, again with a specialized library).
    .....(i) The example code will be hosted on the main site for computer open-source-ish things, called "GitHub," linked to from my resume, but I'm inclined to just go ahead and list under skills that little bit. It'll be months before anyone gets around to my resume, and maybe a week before I'm finished with this machine learning example project. Anyway, I certainly do know enough to answer most relevant questions in person or a screening interview, at least in a theoretical fashion, even today.
    .....(ii) The idea behind section (i) can be repeated for a few other small projects, and for some toy programs I'm writing, like a fragment of a parser for a compiler, a basic data structures demonstration, etc. I know all this stuff, and more, I just haven't gotten around to spitting out some example code yet.

    (b) Any thoughts on the style of photograph for a GitHub and a LinkedIn page? I think just casual, me sitting at my desk, maybe even smiling. Compunerds are pretty casual, so I think suit and tie are not that good.

    (c) Is there any disadvantage to creating tiny subsections on resume/CV for "natural languages," "mathematics" under things I know? Provided not cluttered visually, but I expect they just grep anything anyway, so I figure why not.

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    I have exactly 2001 posts on some other board.

    I think that means I should not ever make another post there, even if I really want to.

    That cannot be spoiled.

    My question? Will I be able to restrain myself without resorting to thick rubber bands, clothespins, and other self-flagellations? And for how long?

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    No. No you won't.

    That was easy.

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    You beat me to it, Rube! :: shakes fist ::

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    Yeah, well, some take the Lenten period to be a time for scarification and mortification of the flesh, so maybe I'll do that just because I choose to, not because I have to.

    New question, same theme:

    Is it better in this case to resort to self-control, at some emotional discomfort, or should I just PM some modes and admins and other people some really foul things in order to get myself banned? Only the ones who really are asking for it, you know.

    Wait, no, I can answer that. It is better to preserve options.

    However, how often does one get have a PERMANENT post count of 2,001? And I'm not even that much a sci-fi geek, even though it's an exceptional movie, and certainly one where Kubrick's general stain isn't allowed to penetrate the work. Yes, SK's a fine director, I just don't like the cult of personality that's grown up around him. Hell, I saw *Eyes Wide Shut* three times in the theaters, I think.

    OK, new question: are hospital cafeterias crappy by design, or do they just end up that way by accident?
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    GODDAMMIT.

    Fine.

    I'm the Cosmo.

    I'm out.

    But I have an excellent reason, I'm watching All That Jazz with Roy Scheider, and I remember 2010 from the theater, so I can still stop anytime.

    Question: who DARES defy my reason?

    Yeah, that's what I thought.

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    Well, here's a real question, I guess. I'm starting a new gig with Amazon next week, starting at 0500 o'clock five days a week.

    I plan to be ASLEEP, not just going to bed and reading, at 19h00 every night.

    You think five days of acclimation to this odd schedule is going to be enough, using my trusty Benadryl/Diphenhydramine and decent sleep hygiene (no caffeine, no TV/computer, close before bed), or should I try some more extreme measures before my first day?

    And what would those be? All I can think of is maybe a home lobotomy or trepanning.

    Good thing is, I think there's close to no chance of me getting fired, because I can't get into any trouble at 5 in the damned morning. Of course I will be attempting to lure select coworkers into my car on occasion for a drink at this bar nearby that has a morning happy hour catering to industrial workers -- not a sleazy dive, actually a very nice place. And you know women, they be complaining, and "mew mew, he showed it to me!" Just kidding.

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    I dunno. I don't recommend any extreme measures, but it's probably going to take awhile to get into the groove. It's probably not that hard, though, bodies usually can adjust to a pattern.

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    Quote Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday View post
    I dunno. I don't recommend any extreme measures, but it's probably going to take awhile to get into the groove. It's probably not that hard, though, bodies usually can adjust to a pattern.
    Thank you.

    I just remembered that I had to do a similar nocturnal-diurnal shift just last year, although a complete reversal, as in sleeping until 15h00 or 17h00 every day, and had success by gradually altering the hours.

    This isn't so bad, I can just start today and the next day waking up at 5am, which is not all that early, then for the next few days, adjust to 4am, then, finally, my goal of 3am, which leaves me the option of snoozing until 3:30.

    Therefore, the problem is solved.

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    What in the hell kind of a name is Gaylord, anyway? Gaylord Perry's the only one I know, and he seemed like a pretty awesome dude, although before my time, sadly.

    And who in the hell would name a piece of light industrial equipment a "gaylord" (for example, a very large cardboard box with a "U"-shaped hole cut in it on one face, used for holding various stuffs)?

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    I believe, very near Disney World there is a large luxury hotel named the Gaylord.

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    Quote Originally posted by What Exit? View post
    I believe, very near Disney World there is a large luxury hotel named the Gaylord.
    Oh yeah, I think I heard of that. They also call it "The Spitter" and "The Puffball."

    (Wikipedia's page on Gaylord Perry is pretty extensive -- never heard of a puffball, apparently GP used to load up the ball with rosin and other crap and work it with his mitt somehow to create a powdery blast off the ball as he drove it to the batter. Apparently that's a little confusing to the batter. "The spitter" is just a spitball, which I guess GP was one of the masters of).
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    All or some joking aside, I'd welcome some advice.

    So, blah blah, I started work for a major internet-based company, with a ... blah blah, I don't feel like repeating their standard rap.

    Eh.

    So, great, I start in the proverbial mailroom, and on my third day I receive an official commendation for doing what I'm supposed to do -- believe it or not, I actually do what I'm told, and do it well.

    Apparently that's worth a gold star, or whatever. I don't give a shit about that.

    I forgot what I was going to say... oh, ok, if you want the boring story, after my second day of, as I said, superior performance doing stupid bullshit, but, hey, better than 90% anyone else -- and FTR I don't believe in competing with my coworkers, AFAIC, we're all together, and I'm not a rat.

    What was I saying? Oh, so after that I get a text from my mother saying my father was transmitted via ambulance to the hospital. and I should come to the hospital to watch him die.

    Yay. My shift's over, so I do that.

    It appears that, since I'm not a fucking asshole, I should stay with my father as he quite likely would perish during the two and three incipient surgeries.

    NOW it appears that my company decided I had not accrued enough seniority to not be penalized for my correctly-reported abesence of two days of work.

    You ever feel like you want to take an ice-pick and put it in some manager's ear?

    Becuse I do.

    They have one job to do, and that is to just fucking take care of it. They've been informed, I took time out of watching the fascinating spectacle of the dozen medications in varying titratons to inform the (i)HR Manager (ii) site-specific manager.

    Just fucking take care of it.

    I'm doing these people a favor by providing extraordinary, exemplary labor.

    Just fucking taking care of it.

    I have spent more time dealing with Amazon's retard bullshit than I have trying to take care of real people.

    I hope they die.

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    Oh, and that may not have been clear: if some of you have miracle-Ear, or whatever, HR and floor managers are compensated to process exactly the correct documents I've provided.

    And should they require additional documents, I fully expect they can perform the duties of your average eight-grade teacher and request those documents, as I indicated I would be happy to provide.

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    Goddammit I fucking hate children. Yeah, pardon my French, but you know it because I say so.

    Otherwise just go behind the Home Depot and get some dipshits with SSNs who can pass a piss test.

    Pieces of human garbage.

    And, FTR, Ms. Denise Alexander is the manager who has failed to perform her duty, at Amazon Sortation Center DPD-01/

    By all means -- she's obviously derelict by several days, therefore my civil liability is nill, and yours is none.

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